Posted on 01/21/2015 7:05:01 PM PST by Morgana
A group of Democrats is hoping to regain ground in their national fight for abortion rights with a bill that makes it illegal for states to “chip away at women’s reproductive rights.”
The group, led by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), said it will introduce a “historic pro-choice bill” on Wednesday. The bill directly targets harsh laws recently passed in Texas and Wisconsin, which now face court challenges.
“The protections in this measure are more necessary now than ever before in our history because an avalanche of restrictive, reprehensible state laws is drastically reducing fundamental health care rights,” Blumenthal wrote in a statement.
Legislative attacks on abortion have spiked since the Republican wave election of 2010, when the party made gains in state legislatures around the country.
Since then, more than 200 new abortion rules have passed through state legislatures.
Nationally, the number of abortion clinics has shrunk by nearly one-quarter over the last five years, with 60 facilities shuttered in 2014, according to research by the anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue.
The abortion debate is already taking center stage on Capitol Hill this week. The Republican-led bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks is slated for a vote Thursday, the same day that thousands of people will rally on the Mall for the March for Life.
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“Dead on arrival” has never had such a double meaning.
feguv is already too intrusive.
Good luck with something like that. However, spineless Reps may go for it. The new class on Capitol Hill have thus far been all talk.
Good luck with that bill. lol
The pro-infanticide bunch are ghouls.
They’re going to allow the choice of how many rounds you want your magazine to hold?
I don't understand lesbians in the "pro-choice" battle. I mean how do they have a dog in the fight?
Regarding the Democrat’s pro-choice bill, please consider the following explanation as to why Constitution-ignoring Democrats are trying to take advantage of low-information voters by using their constitutionally indefensible bill to win their support.
As mentioned in related threads, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called right to have an abortion. In other words, activist justices wrongly amended the fictitious right to have an abortion to the Constitution from the bench, imo, not only stealing legislative powers to do so, but breaching the 10th Amendment to steal state legislative powers.
Sadly, the reason that activist justices got away with doing so is the following imo. With all due respect to mom & pop, parents have not been making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution, particularly 10th Amendment-protected state powers versus constitutionally enumerated rights applied to the states via the 14th Amendment (14A). Consequently, state lawmakers who were probably as clueless about 14A as the voters who elected them didn’t understand that justices not having a constitutionally enumerated right to abortion to apply to the states via 14A was a major problem.
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
Ronald Reagan
Maybe we could accuse, indict and convict unborn children of capital crimes in utero,
punishable by lethal injection. Then the Democrats would fight like wildcats to save them.
Now that the GOP has caved again, I expect this one to get that fabled bipartisan support.
Tammy Baldwin spreading her witchery!
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